Howard Bradley knows what equality looks like. The son of a nurse and a firefighter, he grew up in a neighborhood of Springfield, Tenn., characterized by what he calls “genteel poverty ...

When Louisa May Alcott published her semiautobiographical novel Little Women in 1868, few could have predicted this domestic story about four Massachusetts sisters surviving genteel poverty, the ...

The March family in Little Women was not wealthy — they lived in genteel poverty. But the real Alcott family lived in dire need. Watch Clips From The Film: "Lively, ...